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I must thank you both yourself and Guillaume for the few days of quietude that you have procured to an old vagabond and madman like myself." Then, as they tried to prevail on him to remain until the following morning, he would not listen to them. There would be a train for Brussels about midnight, and he had ample time to take it. He refused to let Morin accompany him.
Their place was taken in Canada West by Hincks, an adroit tactician and a skilled financier, intent on railway building and trade development; and in Canada East by Morin, a somewhat colorless lieutenant of La Fontaine. But these leaders in turn soon gave way to new men; and the political parties gradually fell into a state of flux.
"You should be grateful to those who lodge and nourish you." "I am grateful, ma tante," said Jeanne patiently. Aunt Morin complained of being robbed on all sides. The doctor, Toinette, Jeanne, the English soldiers the last the worst of all. Besides not paying sufficiently for what they had, they were so wasteful in the things they took for nothing.
I saw Madame Morin going to the window and looking closely at something she held in her hand. I remembered I had left out the portrait of the fair nun. I ran to her and begged her to give me the indecent picture I had so foolishly left about. "I don't mind the indecency of it," she said, "but what strikes me is the exact likeness."
"They have been making eyes at each other in a heartrending way for a week past." "Yes," he answered. "So she was found guilty." "Who?" "Mme. Morin." "I am talking about Mlle. Victorine," said Mlle, Michonneau, as she entered Poiret's room with an absent air, "and you answer, 'Mme. Morin. Who may Mme. Morin be?" "What can Mlle. Victorine be guilty of?" demanded Poiret.
The uncle, Monsieur Tonnelet subscribed to The Fanal, and a fervent political co-religionist of ours, who received us with open arms and congratulated us and wished us joy; he was delighted at having the two editors in his house and Rivet whispered to me: "I think we shall be able to arrange the matter of that Pig of a Morin for him."
M'sieur Morin, he leave thoze li'l peezes papier in those table, and say ver' much 'bout money thass hard for me to ond'stan. Mais I never see those money again. Thass ver' wicked man, M'sieur Morin. H'what you call those peezes papier, M'sieur Robbin' bon!" Robbins explained.
"For when the younger Morin called at the porter's lodge, on the evening of the day when Virginie had gone out for the first time after so many months' confinement to the conciergerie, he was struck with the improvement in her appearance.
Aunt Morin had still a son, who was already very old. He must be forty-six. He had expatriated himself many years ago and was in Madagascar. The son who was killed was her Benjamin, the child of her old age. But all her little fortune would go to the colonial Gaspard, whom Jeanne had never seen. But the Farm of La Folette?
As soon as I got back to the inn I sent off Le Duc in a travelling carriage to Madame Morin, whom I informed by letter that as I was only at Chamberi for her sake I would await her convenience. This done, I abandoned myself to the delight I felt at the romantic adventure which fortune had put in my way. I repeated Mdlle.
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